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Big week has arrived.  This is real start of the new list of shows that will either live or die for the new upcoming television season.  What shows are we looking forward to?  Of course Two and a Half Men to see if the audience that watched the show in the past will remain with Ashton Kutcher on board.  Will new dramas like Unforgettable be unforgettable?  How about Prime Suspect or ABC’s Revenge?  And will the NBC comedy Whitney live up to its expectations since Up All Night and Free Agents failed miserably.

Here we go!

Monday, 9/19/11

Castle (ABC) 4th Season Premiere
Dancing with the Stars (ABC) 13th Season Premiere
2 Broke Girls (CBS) Series Premiere
Hawaii Five-o (CBS) 2nd Season Premiere
How I Met Your Mother (CBS) 7th Season Premiere
Two and a Half Men (CBS) 9th Season Premiere
The Playboy Club (NBC) Series Premiere

The Sing Off (NBC) 3rd Season Premiere

Tuesday, 9/20/11

Body of Proof (ABC) 2nd Season Premiere
NCIS (CBS) 9th Season Premiere
NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) 3rd Season Premiere
Unforgettable (CBS) Series Premiere
Glee (FOX) 3rd Season Premiere
New Girl (FOX) Series Premiere
Raising Hope (FOX) 2nd Season Premiere
The Biggest Loser (NBC) 12th Season Premiere

Chris D'Elia as 'Alex Miller' and Whitney Cummings as 'Whitney Cummings' in NBC's 'Whitney'

Wednesday, 9/21/11

The Middle (ABC) 3rd Season Premiere
Modern Family (ABC) 3rd Season Premiere
Revenge (ABC) Series Premiere
Criminal Minds (CBS) 7th Season Premiere
CSI (CBS) 12th Season Premiere
The X Factor (FOX) Series Premiere
Harry’s Law (NBC) 2nd Season Premiere
Law & Order: SVU (NBC) 13th Season Premiere

Thursday, 9/22/11

Charlie’s Angels (ABC) Series Premiere
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) 8th Season Premiere
Big Bang Theory (CBS) 5th Season Premiere
The Mentalist (CBS) 4th Season Premiere
Person of Interest (CBS) Series Premiere
Community (NBC) 3rd Season Premiere
Parks and Recreation (NBC) 4th Season Premiere
The Office (NBC) 8th Season Premiere
Prime Suspect (NBC) Series Premieres
Whitney (NBC) Series Premiere

Friday, 9/23/11

A Gifted Man (CBS) Series Premiere
Blue Bloods (CBS) 2nd Season Premiere
CSI: New York (CBS) 8th Season Premiere
Nikita (CW) 2nd Season Premiere
Supernatural (CW) 7th Season Premiere
Fringe (FOX) 4th Season Premiere
Kitchen Nightmares (FOX) 5th Season Premiere
Dateline (NBC) 21st Season Premiere

Rick Thomas

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“It only takes a minute,” says the 70′s disco group Tavares.   Guess I really would like to have gone back in the day and spent my Wednesday night at Second Story nightclub in my old Philly days instead of spending an hour watching the premieres of two not very funny at all Up All Night and Free Agents on NBC.

Only took a minute to take these two off the “series recording” list on my DVR.

Both were simply awful.  Nothing more to say but whoever decided to green-light these two shows must have had some real crappy options because neither show hit the mark for humor of content.

The whole hour made me almost miss Outsourced which is a show that really sucked.  I mean really, who thought these to shows were funny?  Seriously, who?

Up All Night - Christina Applegate as Reagan, Will Arnett as Chris

Not one funny line in Up All Night.  Christina Applegate and Will Arnett star in this comedy series as two new parents trying to get their respective lives together while raising a child.  She works as a producer of a television show and he’s Mr. Mom, at home with the baby.  And the baby is the most engaging thing about the whole show.  Everybody likes babies, right.  Other than that not one funny line or funny segment.  Not one.

In Free Agents Hank Azaria plays a newly divorced man with two kids trying to get his life back on track as a single guy.  This show beats Up All Night leading two funny segments or jokes to none.  And that’s pretty bad for a show that bills itself as a comedy. The opening of the show featured Azaria and co-worker Helen (Kathryn Hahn) together in bed after a night of sex and afterward he starts to cry like a baby thinking of his kids.

Pretty funny.

Free Agents - Hank Azaria as Alex, Kathryn Hahn as Helen

The other humorous part which will make this a short overview of both shows, was when Azaria’s character (Alex) goes shopping for new single man’s gear.  He heads to a store looking for new shirts to hang out and party with noting that one makes him look like a deejay at “an Armenian gangster’s acquittal party.”

Very funny.  Especially to me, having Armenia friends in Glendale, California.  Not sure anyone else living in the continental United States would get it, but at leas for me it was a very funny line.

The end as far as humor.

My two new picks, already for the RealTVCritics.com canceled bin.  Sorry people but these two shows will tank during week two and just don’t have the legs to survive.

If NBC wants to get their prime-time out of the number four rank of all networks excluding The CW, these two shows gotta go.

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This is why I stopped drinking expensive scotch.  OK I stopped drinking expensive scotch on Tuesdays with my cornflakes but you will soon see my point.  Once the binge is over, once people consider you the biggest loser on the planet behind, and I do mean well behind Casey Anthony, you sober up and pretty much shut up.

Charlie Sheen’s 15 minutes of fame as a coked out, whore-mongering, hard drinking alcoholic seem to be over.   No one’s ruling out a relapse but if you look at some excerpts of his interview with Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today Show, things have taken a turn somewhat toward the good for Charlie Sheen.

The “tiger blood” is gone.  At least temporarily and Sheen believes that he got caught up in the drama after his firing from Two and a Half Men on CBS.  “It was so silly and people took it so seriously,” Sheen told Matt Lauer in a recorded interview airing tomorrow morning.  “I figured, allright, I’ll continue to give people what they want, you know?”

Yeah we know Charlie but remember the people who wanted that were lower than your state of mind at that time.  Most people wanted you to get clean.  The others you were cow-towing to usually end up wrapping their their car around a telephone pole with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit.

Sheen goes on to say “it was one of those things where the planets were aligned, perfectly or imperfectly, Sheen continues to babble.  And just like someone that needs to get sober “it caught such traction globally…I had to keep fueling it.”

You can catch the full Sheen interview tomorrow morning but unfortunately significant damage has been done to the guy’s career.  Getting his life back together is a good thing but with some of the statements here and what will air tomorrow, Charlie Sheen’s got a long way to go.  A long way.

Lauer asks “Are you sober?”

“Yeah absolutely,” said Charlie Sheen.

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Neal Schon from 'Journey' in Concert on NBC's "Today Show"

TMZ.com ran a story that Michaele Salahi, half of the duo known as the White House gate crashers and part of the only Real Housewives franchise in Washington ever canceled, had been kidnapped.

Nope!

She’s on tour with the rock band Journey or more direct she’s apparently left her doofus husband Tareq and is doing what all female dingbats do at her age of mid life crisis and is hanging with band guitarist Neal Schon.  Journey is on tour in Memphis right now and Michaele contacted authorities to tell them she was fine.

Now I would have checked the tour bus to see if this was for real but cops say the investigation is over but Don’t Stop Believing.  That is don’t stop believing that they never took this missing persons case seriously because nobody takes Tareq or Michaele Salahi seriously.

Michaele and Tareq Salahi

In a statement to TMZ.com earlier today, Tareq said “Michaele Salahi may have been kidnapped or  abducted and being held under duress and forced to tell persons including authorities she is okay.”

Yeah, okay on a tour bus you moron.

Bottom line anything is possible with these people and apparently anyone connected to the Real Housewives franchise on Bravo is capable of anything,  which just keeps the ratings going up and up.

On a personal note this couple ranks behind George and Cindy Anthony (Casey’s Mom and Dad) as two of the worst hyped media losers in the world.

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Dark Shadows fans wait no more.  And you new kids on the block who didn’t grow up in the 1970′s you’re just going to want to see the next big movie featuring Johnny Depp in a major role.  And any Twilight fans or Vampire Diaries watchers here comes the next big piece of content featuring people who live in caskets and only come out at night.

Johnny-Depp as 'Barnabas Collins' in 'Dark Shadows' the Movie (Photo Courtesy Celebuzz!)

For the record school used to get out at 3PM and as a kid we would run home to watch Dark Shadows at 3:30PM on ABC TV.  Jonathan Frid play the role of the scary Barnabas Collins for five years on the daytime drama series that featured my first look at vampires.

Now Johnny Depp is reprising the role of Barnabas Collins on the big screen and the move is in full production.  Celebuzz! has the exclusive photos on-set of Dark Shadows the movie and we’re going to send you over the link to check them all out.

As an old school fan of Dark Shadows the TV show, I can’t wait for Dark Shadows the movie.

http://www.celebuzz.com/2011-09-13/johnny-depp-steps-out-in-creepy-makeup-for-dark-shadows-scenes-photos/

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Well  that didn’t take long.  What a couple of months?  Yes Meredith Vieira was given that big send-off when she decided that getting up at 3AM every day to co-host the Today Show on NBC became a bit much.  Now with her only gig as host of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire which takes her less then six months to complete a full production season, Meredith Vieira is back in business over at NBC.

Ann Curry and Meredith Vieira on the Today Show on NBC

NBC announced today hat Vieira will be a Special Correspondent joining Rock Center, the new news-magazine headed to NBC and hosted by Nightly News anchor Brian Williams.  And one of her biggest projects that will bring her back to the Today Show will be her integration not only in the prime-time program but the upcoming summer Olympic Games in London.

Her new duties will also have Vieira involved in other NBC News duties including NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.

But all will take place during regular business hours which was her beef at the Today Show.

NBC News President Steve Capus calls Vieira a “world class journalist and a captivating storyteller.”

Yes, a good move for NBC as bringing back Vieira is a comfortable personality for the network.

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We’re going to send you to a link over at Vogue.com.  And if you’re a fan of the iconic Marilyn Monroe you will enjoy the photo spread put out by the even more iconic Annie Leibovitz, who took some amazing shots of Michelle Williams as she transformed her way in to the image of the famous personality.

Michelle Williams on the Cover of 'Vogue Magazine'

She’s a long way from Dawson’s Creek which is quite clear.  Michelle Williams stars in the upcoming British film My Week with Marilyn and her career has put her name at top billing for the movie.  She will work with Kenneth Branagh who will play the great Laurence Olivier in the production based on two books by writer Colin Clark.  He spent a week showing Marilyn Monroe Great Britain when her then husband Arthur Miller left the country.

Here’s the Vogue Magazine cover promoting the story written by Adam Green titles Michelle Williams: My Week with Michelle.  But you’re going to want to see the pictures Liebowitz took along with reading the Green piece on Michelle Williams.  The likeness is amazing.

My Week with Marilyn premieres at the New York Film Festival in October and is set for release in the United States in November.

Here’s the link.

http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/michelle-williams-my-week-with-michelle/#

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Well here it is.  Finally after all of the promotional effort all over The CW and everywhere else.  It’s all about Sarah Michelle Gellar and her return to prime-time television as Ringer gets underway tonight with its pilot episode on The CW.

Sarah Michelle Gellar on Ringer, 9PM on The CW (Photo Credit: The CW)

And this plot has a pretty cool twist.  Ringer is not Buffy the Vampire Slayer which was Sarah Michelle Gellar’s last gig on The CW.  This series has her playing two roles of twin sisters.  One a upscale socialite sipping champagne and eating caviar while the other was a former stripper and we’re not talking about the kind that removes wallpaper from drywall.

You get my meaning here, right?

So here’s the plot.  FBI agent Victor Machado (Nester Carbonell) has a key witness who is in the wind prior to testifying against a mob boss who will go to prison on her word.

Of course that’s the former stripper, Bridget Kelly, played by Gellar.

She decides to take the identity of her socialite twin sister Siobhan Martin when she disappears.  In an attempt to hide out Bridget finds out that the classy sister’s life is just as messed up and dangerous as her former activity.  Both roles of course are played by Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Now the plot thickens.

Gellar hopes her Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans find Ringer appealing which of course being on the network helps.  But she’s getting lukewarm response from critics so you will have to be the judge on Ringer.  Tonight at 9 on The CW.

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I can only say wow!  What a great anchor is Laura Diaz as we do another local story about another local news personality who pretty much was the foundation of the 11pm news over at CBS2 Los Angeles.

Laura Diaz

The 14 time local Emmy Award winner announced that she will be leaving CBS2 after nine years with the station and move to start her own production company.  Laura Diaz made history in 1997 as she became the first Hispanic-American to become the lead anchor of the 5PM and 11PM newscasts over at ABC7 television in Los Angeles.

She jumped ship in 2002 to join CBS2.  And is without question one of the market’s most qualified newsreaders in Los Angeles.  CBS TV local boss Steve Mauldin says “Laura will continue to be successful as she begins her new venture.”

KCAL9′s Rick Garcia will replace Diaz and shift from that CBS owned station over to the mothership KCBS2.  “It’s been an amazing run at CBS2″ said Diaz on her exit from the station.

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